Author: Dev and Play Media
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Serious Sam: Shatterverse Review — Same Chaos, New Sams
We’re old. We played the first Serious Sam when it came out in 2001. We’re also big fans of the series and deeply nostalgic. There are certain things we expect from a Serious Sam game: lots of enemies, lots of guns, lots of explosions, and, at some point, probably a very large creature trying to…
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Create Strong Passwords with Dalenryder Password Generator
Coming up with unique passwords that are hard for others to guess can be a real challenge. Dalenryder Password Generator is a free app packed with several security tools. It gives you access to a quick password creator, a secure vault for storing them, a high-quality encryption tool for sensitive data, and a handy generator…
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Star Wars Zero Company Review – XCOM Has Never Felt This Good
We’ve loved XCOM for years. We can never tire of sitting in front of a tactical map and figuring out how to turn a seemingly impossible situation in our favor through careful positioning and taking risks. Then came Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and we absolutely fell in love with the way it took the familiar ideas…
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Store Your Passwords in the Cloud with AuthPass
AuthPass is a solid, completely free password manager that is fully compatible with KeePass. Its clean, fast interface takes clear design cues from Google, making navigation feel smooth and intuitive right out of the box. Your encrypted passwords can be backed up directly to Dropbox or Google Drive, making it easy to sync and access…
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Zhai brings a strange origin story to an open-world adventure
In our time playing games, we’ve come across plenty of unusual titles, and a good chunk of them focus on a warrior who has lost their memory. Zhai fits that mold, but its origins make it twice as unique. The upcoming open-world action-adventure from The Orange Giant started with an experience one of the studio’s…
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Keep Passwords Safe with KeePass
Quick heads-up: our cover photo was generated using AI. When it comes to password managers, some tools store your credentials in the cloud, while others keep them locally on your hard drive. If you aren’t comfortable with cloud-based storage, KeePass is an offline password manager that keeps your data secure in a database stored directly…
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition: Fellowship Worth Joining
In 2011, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was a game we loved dearly. Soon after watching the trilogy and reading the first book, this game fell into our laps completely by accident. We remember approaching it with a lot of skepticism, thinking it was just another quick cash grab, but boy…
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Interview with Mark Mocherad about Rebuilding POLYSTRIKE: From Mod to UE5 Shooter
POLYSTRIKE began as a simple experiment: what would a tactical first-person shooter look like from an overhead perspective? That question turned into a viral Dota 2 mod played by over 200,000 people. Today, the project is being rebuilt from scratch as a standalone 5v5 competitive title in Unreal Engine 5. The founder of Robin Entertainment…
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How Long Will We Have to Use Passwords?
Quick heads-up: our cover photo was generated using AI. Nobody likes memorizing long, complex passwords. Yet doing so remains essential if you want to protect your privacy and maintain a strong security posture. It is especially frustrating when the clever passwords you’ve used for years are exposed in a leak and misused by bad actors.…
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1666: Amsterdam Review — A Witch Worth Following?
The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice, is one of our favorite books. We love what Rice did with witchcraft—particularly the way she mixed folklore, history, and the lives of the people caught up in it. So when 1666: Amsterdam appeared, saying we were intrigued was quite the understatement. A game about witches in 17th-century Amsterdam,…
